Harvest Moon also coincides with a partial lunar eclipse, providing a rare opportunity to witness an eclipse during a ...

The full harvest supermoon will shine brightly in the night sky Tuesday evening. A partial lunar eclipse, with a “bite” taken ...

The harvest moon can take place in September or October depending on its proximity to the autumnal equinox. Another full moon ...

They have to compromise. Map makers use map projections to transform the Earth onto a flat surface. One of the most popular world map projections is known as the Mercator Projection. You’ll have ...

The black is where we still need modern measurements at a reasonable resolution We've just become a little less ignorant about Planet Earth ... the creation of a full map of the ocean floor ...

One spin of the Earth is how we measure one full day. While the Earth is spinning to give us day and night, it is also moving around the Sun. This movement is called an orbit. One orbit of the ...

Earth, our home planet, is a world unlike any other. The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known universe confirmed to host life. With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the ...

Explore what the world’s new coastlines would look like. 8 min read This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The maps here ... of ice on Earth, and some ...

David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. For geologists ... the U.S., Denmark and Tasmania compiled a new geological map using a combination of rock samples recovered ...

After the moon-forming impact, Earth was a very different planet from the world we see today! Where the present-day Earth has oceans covering much of its surface, the early Earth was covered in a ...

A supermoon occurs when the full moon coincides with the moon being at the point in its orbit within 90% of its closest approach to Earth, called Perigee. This makes the moon appear slightly ...

The researchers say earth systems face the risk of crossing dangerous tipping points, which would cause further significant harm to people around the world unless energy, food and urban systems ...